Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

In the new Phaidon book “Concrete Architecture,” Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores, but, they ...

Beijing and New York–based OPEN Architecture recently completed work on Shanfeng Academy, a new campus for the Mountain Kingston Bilingual School in Suzhou, China. Located in the Xiangcheng district, ...

Is it possible to assert the existence of a timeless material in architecture from an aesthetic standpoint? Undoubtedly, wood and concrete emerge as strong contenders, not only due to their ...

The use of pigmented concrete in Latin American architecture is growing - and influencing contemporary architectural expression. This can be seen in recent built works ranging from the INES Innovation ...

Raw exposed concrete, simple geometric shapes: What some find beautiful, others find ugly. Brutalist architecture divides ...